United States v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 1257 · 1994
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Wright v. Wright · Roy v. Gravel · Thompson v. Virginia · United States v. Barrett
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant did not put his motive in issue; there was no testimony by his co-conspirators about his motive; and the facts which the government used to show motive were not also relevant to identity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he government simply asked the jury to draw a raw inference about the defendant's motive from the fact that he used drugs,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were a material issue in this robbery case and drug use were probative of it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.